Hi, I rebooted my machine last night, and everything started working again. But no, I didnt check that. And after I was looking at some sysctls late last night, I did speculate about whether those you mention were right or not.
Problem resolved, and thanks for the help :) ps. Sorry I accidentally spammed the list. It didnt seem as if my emails went through at the time. On 3/31/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel A. wrote: > > Hi, > > I run a FreeBSD 6.0 at home in my closet. > > Yesterday, while I was linking IRCd services with a friend of mine, my > > router > > completely stopped routing any packets between the internal nic (sis0) and > > the external nic (rl0). > > The only thing that I can think of, whoich could have caused this, is that I > > ran ettercap on the server to diagnose why our servers wouldnt link. I did > > NOT > > run any ARP poisoning or DNS spoofing attacks on myself. > > But I didnt notice if the routing stopped at that point, or later, because I > > could always connect to my server, and the server could always connect to > > the > > internet. The situation is still the same. > > > > I have tried to do > > - "ipf -Fa -f /etc/ipf.rules; ipnat -FC -f /etc/ipnat.rules" - Didnt help > > - "cd /etc/rc.d; ./ipfilter restart; ./ipnat restart" - Didnt help > > - Launch ettercap again and exit "cleanly" after telling it to stop > > sniffing. > > A tcpdump reveals that, indeed, no packets at all make it from sis0 to rl0. > > So my conclusion is that ipnat "forgot" how to route between the two > > interfaces. > > > > Could anyone please give some pointers? > > did you check > > # sysctl -a |grep forward > > you should have > > net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 > net.inet.ip.fastforwarding: 0 > net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 > > Erik > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org > S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt > Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 > Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9 > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"